[Debian-in-workers] Re: Nepalifonts deb package needs a sponsor

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, brett hartshorn wrote:

>
> Hello Jaldhar,
>
> I had made the deb manually, i just read the 'APT Howto - Working with
> source packages', so i will now go back and make them properly by
> packaging them first in: nepalifonts.orig.tar.gz, nepalifonts.diff.gz
> and nepalifonts.dsc.  I will also make sure they are DFSG compliant, or
> try my best to free them.
>
> -brett
>

One more thing, to follow the convention used by other Indic fonts in
debian, the package should be called ttf-nepali-fonts.  Please look at
ttf-indic-fonts to see how to make a policy-compliant fonts package.

Actually, something just struck me.  Nepali uses Devanagari right?  In
that case it might be better to just add the fonts to ttf-indic fonts or
make a ttf-devanagari-fonts package.  But if these fonts cannot be used
for other languages, it would make sense to have a seperate Nepali
fonts package.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/